US gives the biggest aid package to support Rohingyas

Dhaka Tribune
Sheikh Shahariar Zaman
October 25th, 2019

File photo of Rohingya women and children in a camp in Cox Bazar Mahmud Hossain Opu/ Dhaka Tribune

This year, the USA gave $274 million

While a request for $920 million was made to carry on the humanitarian aid for the Rohingyas, so far 60% has come thru, with the most from the United States of America.

This year alone, the US gave around $274 million.

The Rohinghya exodus began on Aug 25, 2017 when a large number of people came to Bangladesh to avert a crackdown by the Myanmar army. 

JRP for Rohingya crisis: 25% of $920m for host communities

Dhaka Tribune

Published at February 18th, 2019
Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan

Bangladesh is currently sheltering over 1.1 million Rohingyas in a numberof refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

UN aid agencies and NGO partners have appealed for raising $920 million to meet the massive needs of the refugees and over 330,000 members of vulnerable host communities

A quarter of the $920-million Joint Response Plan (JRP) launched in Geneva last Friday to tackle the ongoing Rohingya crisis this year has been allocated for the host communities in Cox’s Bazar.

UN, partners appeal for USD 920 million to meet dire needs of 900,000 Rohingyas

FINANCIAL EXPRESS
By: PTI | Published: February 16, 2019 11:49 AM

Despite these and other achievements, the Rohingyas remain in an extremely precarious situation. UNHCR underscored that until the root causes of displacement in Myanmar are addressed and refugees can voluntarily return in safety, Bangladesh must be supported to meet the needs of refugees and the host communities.

UN, partners appeal for USD 920 million to meet dire needs of 900,000 Rohingyas (Image: Reuters)

 

The United Nations aid agencies and partners have appealed for USD 920 million to help meet the “dire needs” of more than 900,000 Rohingyas who have fled to Bangladesh to escape the violence in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine State, triggering one of the world’s worst refugee crises. According to the UN estimates, over 700,000 minority Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh, where they joined roughly 200,000 others already sheltering there, since August 25 last year when the army launched a military crackdown.

Briefing: How the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh is changing

IRIN

BANGKOK, 13 February 2019

Young Rohingya refugees play at Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhia on 4 February 2019. CREDIT: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP)

Aid groups and authorities in Bangladesh are preparing to ask for more than $900 million in donor funding to help Rohingya refugees in the sprawling refugee settlements of southern Bangladesh.

But nearly 18 months after 700,000 Rohingya fled a violent military crackdown in Myanmar in August 2017, the aid sector finds itself shifting from emergency response to dealing with a protracted crisis.